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The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

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When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

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If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

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I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

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To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.

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I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

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My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

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I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

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I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 18th, 1974

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